EXCL: Seth Grahame-Smith on Night of the Living Details, Unholy Night & Beetlejuice 2

Surprisingly, Beetlejuice 2 is not something he’s jumping on right away.  The other day, Tim Burton told us he’s waiting on the writer’s take on the sequel.  But it appears Grahame-Smith has some other things he needs to tackle first.

“Everyone is waiting for me to get my ass in gear,” Grahame-Smith said.  “I just finished a script called Night of the Living, and I’m giving it to Tim this weekend.  And I’m moving now into adapting Unholy Night, which I have to deliver to Warner Bros.  I’ve got to do this, then I’m going around the world for Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, so I’ll be writing Unholy Night on the plane and in hotel rooms.”

When we last reported on Night of the Living, I speculated that the plot could be a unique twist on Night of the Living Dead, except that the humans were a threat to the zombies and not vice versa.

Smith said with a smile:  “[It’s] not just zombies.  Let me put it this way, Tim and I are big fans of classic movie monsters.  The title pretty much where you’re going to be at.  Plus, it’s a Tim Burton stop motion-animated movie.  That movie for me is my love letter to all of the movies I grew up on.”

Stay tuned for more with Grahame-Smith as he talks about Dark Shadows.

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